Margaret Hamilton
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Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist and systems engineer best known for leading the development of the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo missions, which was critical to the success of the Moon landings.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ systems engineer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Computer History Museum Fellow Award
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IEEE Computer Pioneer Award NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Exceptional Space Act Award NERFINISHED ⓘ NASA Group Achievement Award (Apollo Software Team) NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Women in Technology International Hall of Fame induction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-08-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Earlham College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory
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NASA (as contractor via MIT Instrumentation Laboratory) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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software engineering ⓘ systems engineering ⓘ |
| founded |
Hamilton Technologies, Inc.
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Higher Order Software, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| hasChild | Lauren Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imageDepicts | stack of Apollo mission source code printouts next to Margaret Hamilton ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coining or popularizing the term "software engineering" in the 1960s
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contributions to software engineering as a discipline ⓘ leading development of onboard flight software for NASA Apollo missions ⓘ |
| name | Margaret Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | priority scheduling and asynchronous error detection in real-time software ⓘ |
| notableWork | Apollo Guidance Computer flight software NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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computer scientist ⓘ software engineer ⓘ systems engineer ⓘ |
| partOf | Apollo Guidance and Navigation team at MIT Instrumentation Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paoli, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivedAwardOnDate | Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | James Cox Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied | mathematics ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Apollo 10 mission software
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Apollo 11 mission software ⓘ Apollo 12 mission software NERFINISHED ⓘ Apollo 13 mission software ⓘ Apollo 14 mission software ⓘ Apollo 15 mission software ⓘ Apollo 16 mission software ⓘ Apollo 17 mission software ⓘ Apollo 8 mission software ⓘ Apollo 9 mission software ⓘ Apollo program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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